For Communications And Organizing Efforts In Support Of Implementing State Clean Power Policies

Overview

Fossil fuel companies are waging concerted PR campaigns, attempting to raise concerns among low-income communities and people of color about potential increases in electricity and transportation costs. Green For All, an initiative of Dream Corps, works to ensure that climate and clean-energy policies are well-designed and deliver economic, job creation, and public health benefits equitably. This grant will support the organization’s engagement of communities of color in shaping strong Clean Power Plan state compliance plans. Green For All will specifically draw on efforts that have already been successful in some states.

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Dream Corps is a social justice accelerator focused on supporting cutting-edge initiatives. Founded by Van Jones — a social entrepreneur, CNN political contributor, and host of The Van Jones Show on CNN — the organization supports economic, environmental, and criminal justice innovators in a shared platform for change. Dream Corps plans to propel its work forward and dramatically increase its impact through its four initiatives: Green For All, #cut50, #YesWeCode, and #LoveArmy. It will also allow the organization to further activate and engage its sizable and growing community of supporters toward further bridging areas of social, economic, and racial justice.

Green For All, an initiative of Dream Corps, works to ensure that climate and clean-energy policies are well-designed and deliver economic, job creation, and public health benefits equitably. This grant will provide broad program support for Green For All’s work on communications, culture shifting, advocacy, and collaboration geared toward ensuring that the transition away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy benefits low-income communities and communities of color.

Dream Corps is a social justice accelerator focused on supporting cutting-edge initiatives to grow big enough in order to impact millions of lives. Founded by Van Jones, the organization supports economic, environmental and criminal justice innovators in a shared platform for change. With this grant support, Dream Corps will further develop their networked community to serve and support change-makers, to accelerate social justice outcomes, and to strengthen the fabric of our democracy by connecting people to each other across dividing lines of race, class, party, and ideology. This work will allow the organization to further activate and engage their sizable and growing community of supporters towards their mission.